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UNITED STATES L EricE,

PATENT HIRAM SCOTT MCMILLION, OF FALLING SPRINGS, VEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO B. M. HARPER, OF SAME PLACE.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,817, dated July 10, 1888.

Application filed February 29, 1888. Serial No. 265.659.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM Sco'r'r MoMIL- LION, a citizen of the United States, residing at Falling Springs, in the county of Greenbrier and State of W'cst Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in corn-planters, being more especially adapted to be used with one horse only; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side View of a planter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the hopper and the dropper-tube. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the horizontal main frame of the machine, composed of the side rails, a a, and the front and rear rails, c a, respectively, connecting the side rails near their ends, as shown.

B B are the handles, rising at proper points from the outside of the side rails, extending upward and rearward, and connected by the cross-bar I), to which the upper ends of the standards I), rising from the rear portions of the side rails, are secured. The tongue 0 has its butt secured to the central part of the front rail, a being braced by a transverse bar in front thereof, with its ends inserted in the side rails, and is provided at its front end with a staple or loop, 0, for the attachment of a whiffietree or draw-bar of any suitable kind.

D is a standard or support depending from thejunction of the tongue and front rail and having secured to its lower end the furrowopener d.

E E are similar standards or supports depending from the side rails below the standards b, and having secured to their lower ends the coverers so, that face frontward and somewhat inward.

F is the conveying-wheel secured and turir ing on the transverse main shaft f, journaled in the arms ff depending, respectively, from the central parts of the side rails, a a, the wheel being near the side rail a. The wheel has projecting from its rim the equidistant metal- (No model.)

lic fingers G G, which keep it from slipping either backward or laterally. The armjhas the frontward extcnsiomf, to the inner side of which is fixed the dropping-tube H, which is consequentlyjust front of the main shaft or axlef. The dropping-tube is rectangular in cross-section and communicates at its upper end with the seed boX or hopper I through the opening 71 in the bottom of the latter, which is attached to the top of the main frame resting upon cross-pieces i i, seen red to the side'rails.

The seed-box is provided with a suitable cover or lid, The dropping-tube has secured to it and depending from its lower end an extension orguide-tube, J, between the upper end of which and the adjacent end of the droppingtube is fixed the transverse plate K, having the notch or opening It at its inner end.

L is a double-armed lever pivoted atl nearer its upper than its lower end, between the side flanges, Z Z, standing inward from the front and rear side of the droppingtube; and M is a slide-plate pivoted to or loosely connected with the said lever, near its lower end thereof.

The slide-plate passes into an opening in the inner side of the tube J and slides upon the plate K, having an opening, m, in it that closes the notch or opening 7t when the slide-plate is moved in, and that registers with said notch or opening when the said plate is moved out.

N O are curved cam-wires, with their ends secured to the inner face of the wheel F in such manner as to form elongated loops standing at nearly right angles to said face. The wire N is nearer the rim of the wheel than the wire 0, and the said wires N O are respect ively arranged to bear on the lever L above and below the pivotal point thereof and vibrate the lever on said point, so that the slideplate M is reciprocated thereby, the cam-wire N sliding the said plate out from the droppingtube and allowing seed to fall therefrom in the furrow, and the wire 0 moving the plate inward and cutting off the falling seed by the described means.

The cam-wires are used because they are easy to attach and detach and be changed in posi tion; but suitable outstanding cams of any description such as lugs-are equally available. The cam-wires have the most inclined arms in the direction in which the wheel F rotates frontward, so that the lever L will not bejerk ed or jarred when moved by the said wires.

The wire 0 is placed so as to strike the lever just after the wire N has left the same, to prevent too much grain from feeding out at one planting.

P is a covering-roller in rear of the coverers or shares e,with its shaftjournaled in the lower ends of the swinging arms 10 p, pivoted at their upper ends to the inner surfaces of the side railsjust behind the rear rail of the main frame.

Q is a coiled spring with its upper end at tached to the bottom of the hopper, audits lower end hooked into a central loop on a crossrod, 72, connecting the swinging arms above the roller.

The coverers e heap the soil from each side over the grain deposited in the open furrow and the roller evens the same.

The spring keeps the roller to the ground, Whatever may be the position of the main frame.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the main frame, the seed-tube having flanges on its side, the double armed lever pivoted between said flanges, the

slide-plate pivoted to the lower end of said lesaid lever, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in pres' ence of two witnesses.

HIRAM SCOTT MGMILLTON.

Witnesses:

O. V. KIRsHNER, T. T. STEVENSON. 

